"The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, first published by Oxford in 1985, contained half of the journals' full contents. To save space and present an easily digestible, fast-moving narrative, passages describing Lucy Maud Montgomery's darker, more reflective moods and her religious and philosophical speculations were cut. This unabridged edition of her early years on Prince Edward Island, however, reveals a different story"--Cover, page 4.